Myst, the computer game just about everyone in the '90s played, is going to be a TV series, despite it being a tangled and very complicated mystery. If done well this could be really, really good. Like Lost good. If done poorly, well...

Sid Meier's addictive computer worlds have delighted generations of gamers since the 1980s. From Pirates! to his perennial Civilization, Meier's games always follow his philosophy of providing a series of interesting decisions with meaningful choices.

I’ve never really thought of Pac-Man as a horror game. Innocently chomping away, dodging ghosts from a top-down view is pretty tame. But taken from a first-person view, where you simply don’t know what’s around the next corner, it's a whole new horrifying game.

Seen it in the news? Now play it: a mobile-game programming system allows 3D depictions of news events to be introduced into the action. It's been developed by MultiPlay.io, a British start-up that says the technology could make gameplay more current and provide new ways for designers and coders to make cash - perhaps…

Necessity, so they say, is the mother of invention—and if you need a tank but don't have one to hand, it's time to get creative. Like these Syrian rebels, who threw together this tank after a trip to a junk yard.

In recent years, the military's top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches - from neck injections to Reiki - in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today's soldiers. Turns out, they could've just equipped troops with Game Boys.

The first game to ever feature on a PC, co-written by Bill Gates, was Donkey, a driving game in which you had to avoid donkeys. For years, it's been missing from your life, but don't worry: now you can get it on iOS.

He's been a cranky chaos theorist, an abusive godfather, and repelled an alien invasion to save the entire planet. But one role you probably don't know about? A creepy, tween-seducing vampire in a Steven Spielberg-helmed Goosebumps computer game. Yeah. Yeah.

In 1997, X-Men: The Ravages Of Apocalypse hit stores. The game was a Marvel-sanctioned total conversion of the bloody first-person shooter Quake. You played as a cyborg Magneto built to kill Apocalypse's army of X-Men clones. Eat rocket launcher, bub!

Screw this American seven-years-and-out model. The BBC's new Doctor Who series can run for another 20-plus years, just like the original version, says producer Russell T. Davies. The key is taking an occasional pause, like in 2009, when the show will only have three one-hour specials. Also, it wouldn't hurt to bring…

This is Bugstepper, a kids' electronic game that Danish scientists are hoping is the first step in developing computer games that can detect a player's boredom and up the ante accordingly. Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense tried out the active electronic game on 56 eight- to ten-year-olds to…